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This weekend I was listening to a Podcast by Radiolabs on the subject of color. They talked about the fact that humans have three types of cones in their retinas. Red, Green and Blue. By mixing various amounts of these three base colors you can create the whole range of colors that a human can see. This is also the basis of color TV with uses R/G/B to create the color palate.
They went on to describe a rare gene mutation in some women that adds a forth type cone: one for yellow. These people can theoretically see a huge range of additional colors that the rest of us can't.
This got me thinking about the fact that a large number of NDE and channelling accounts talk about the fact that the colors the individual sees are indescribable. They are outside of the range ever seen while alive. This comes up in something like half the cases I've read.
Sceptics have said over and over that NDEs could be caused by lack of oxygen or a number of other things, but it occurred to me that this ability to see a wider range of colors has gotten relatively little attention.
Here's what I am thinking-
if a normal person had a hallucination, they would probably describe the visual experience in the context of the sight characteristics from their living experience. That would be one with R/G/B vision. Whereas if a person described a visual experience that had a color spectrum that far exceeded the normal, perhaps what they are seeing is a visual experience that is not limited by 3 or even more types of cones.
Someone existing even temporarily in a non-physical plane wouldn't needed cones to interpret colors so it makes complete sense that any visual scene that they might encounter would be free of those limitations as would the memories of them.
It feels to me that a description of an experience with vastly increased color range might be considered an indicator that this experience is one that comes from beyond the normal physical realm, and is suggestive of an experience stemming from outside of the physical body rather than a hallucination or other physical event.
Has anyone heard of this aspect of NDEs ever discussed in this way?
They went on to describe a rare gene mutation in some women that adds a forth type cone: one for yellow. These people can theoretically see a huge range of additional colors that the rest of us can't.
This got me thinking about the fact that a large number of NDE and channelling accounts talk about the fact that the colors the individual sees are indescribable. They are outside of the range ever seen while alive. This comes up in something like half the cases I've read.
Sceptics have said over and over that NDEs could be caused by lack of oxygen or a number of other things, but it occurred to me that this ability to see a wider range of colors has gotten relatively little attention.
Here's what I am thinking-
if a normal person had a hallucination, they would probably describe the visual experience in the context of the sight characteristics from their living experience. That would be one with R/G/B vision. Whereas if a person described a visual experience that had a color spectrum that far exceeded the normal, perhaps what they are seeing is a visual experience that is not limited by 3 or even more types of cones.
Someone existing even temporarily in a non-physical plane wouldn't needed cones to interpret colors so it makes complete sense that any visual scene that they might encounter would be free of those limitations as would the memories of them.
It feels to me that a description of an experience with vastly increased color range might be considered an indicator that this experience is one that comes from beyond the normal physical realm, and is suggestive of an experience stemming from outside of the physical body rather than a hallucination or other physical event.
Has anyone heard of this aspect of NDEs ever discussed in this way?